Sandhill Crane Early Week Four

Sandhill Crane Strolling together in search of every kind of food.

Sandhill Crane Red berries. The parent has already shown how.

Sandhill Crane So, the parent eats one.

Sandhill Crane While below, the youngster also digs in.

Sandhill Crane At one point the other parent ran and flapped its wings. Seeing this, the youngster chased after, doing exactly the same.

Sandhill Crane Catch of the day.  A mouse or a vole. Dead with one stab from the parent.

Sandhill Crane However, time to learn about something else that can be eaten.

Sandhill Crane The parent did a long job of tenderizing the kill while someone looked on intently.

Sandhill Crane A bit puzzled by this new food.

Sandhill Crane More tenderizing and demonstrations on how to do it.

Sandhill Crane Several times the parent offered the mouse to the youngster.

Sandhill Crane Now and then a piece of food from it was fed to the youngster. All are studying it in the grass here.

Sandhill Crane Eating some of the catch, but still uncertain. Berries and worms might be better.

Sandhill Crane Finally, a tentative stab and shake.

Sandhill Crane Another piece of the catch offered and accepted.

Sandhill Crane Enough of that, the youngster walked off while the parent swallowed the mouse whole.

Sandhill Crane Back to bugs and berries.

Sandhill Crane One good leg stretch while picking bugs off a bush.

Sandhill Crane Continuing with the search for bugs in the bush.

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